Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | fifty eight roles he 'd done earlier on in his career and he wanted to sort of you know , have a go at everything |
| 2 | Eleven bloody hours I 've driven today . |
| 3 | The upshot of the matter was that although the Butcher had an account for 30 odd years they did not think him worthy of an invite . |
| 4 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 5 | Anyway , this somebody must of given her the idea , I think it was our local doctor oh you 'll be alright you know , you have to have to have them in forty eight hours you see so |
| 6 | forty eight machines you see . |
| 7 | About forty eight bottles I suppose . |
| 8 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 9 | You flew a total of forty three missions it says here . |
| 10 | With forty picked men he was given special powers ; 228 wagons were needed , but only thirty had been sent to Siberia . |
| 11 | Unless hens have at least 800 square centimetres they will not be able to perform simple preening and stretching movements . |
| 12 | In view of the support and assistance which we have already provided I am not prepared to contribute towards your internal training arrangements or the preparation of the 2 self-study units you are proposing . |
| 13 | Forty thousand pounds he had paid for it , a sum which now seemed laughably small , but which in those days had been a vast amount to pay for a private house , even in such a prime position . |
| 14 | Anway , for the Man C. game membership cards are n't needed , but for the next 2 away games they are . |
| 15 | Just that multi-variant analysis on forty five leaves you with some very tiny subgroups . |
| 16 | on the tape okay , so if you 're still doing that in the next forty five minutes it will be just as above or whatever |
| 17 | Oh well it 's gon na be another forty five minutes I must admit I have sympathy for the people who are going to listen to this . |
| 18 | Forty five patients we looked at , age ranged fifty to ninety one , had the mean age of seventy three . |
| 19 | But on forty one minutes it was Milton who took the lead as new signee from A E R Harwell , Robbie Munn , was on hand to slide the ball home from close range as Matt Utteridge in the Bishops ' goal could only palm away Nigel Mott 's probing cross to send Milton in at the interval leading by a goal to nil . |
| 20 | In the 1972 presidential elections he was vice-presidential candidate for the coalition headed by Jose Napoleon Duarte , who was widely held to have won although a military candidate was declared the winner . |
| 21 | Since Jelinek 's corpus was about 2 million words it was impossible . |
| 22 | ‘ Enjoyed our first day serving King and country , ‘ ave we ? ’ asked the duty corporal of his charges , when at twenty-one hundred hours he turned down the gas lights in the barrack room . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ The selection committee is multi-racial and we came with the 30 best players we could pick . |
| 24 | We can not , since over 140 million years it is likely that the threat of extinction due to climatic change may have been continually postponed . |
| 25 | Ironically , while they erected 660 churches , they closed thirty-three for every twenty-one new ones they built . |
| 26 | She says she was mentally and physically abused by her boyfriend , but after 10 months at the hostel with her 2 young sons she 's starting to turn her life around . |
| 27 | For Mozambique , he suggests that donors redirect ten-fifteen percent of the 200–300 million dollars they spend annually on salaries for their own personnel to pay Mozambican public service salaries . |
| 28 | But he came back to a letter from dole chiefs telling him he would not get his income support cash for the 2 1/2 weeks he was away . |
| 29 | Above all , the flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland gave rise to every conceivable kind of speculation — so much so that one report in Bavaria dubbed May 1941 ‘ the month of rumours ’ , as tales surfaced everywhere about the disloyalty , corruption , theft on a grand scale , and flight abroad of Reich notables such as Himmler and Ley and various Bavarian Party bosses , among them Gauleiter Adolf Wagner , said to have been caught trying to get across the Swiss border with 22 million Reichmarks he had stolen from the confiscated property of dissolved monasteries . |
| 30 | IBM Corp has filed a $7.3m federal lawsuit against Nutri-System Inc , saying the debt-ridden diet company failed to make payments on 500 personal computers it had leased — but it sounds as if the Armonkeys will have to sing for their money : the suit accuses the Blue Bell , Pennsylvania , company of making no payments since December and of refusing to allow IBM to repossess the machines , but some of Nutri-System 's major franchisees have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy laws — Chapter 7 means curtains — and last week , banks seized all its cash and bank accounts , forcing the company to close its 283 company-owned weight-loss centres across the US ; while Nutri-System has failed to pay only $965,380 due under its lease with IBM , a default entitles IBM to recover the full lease sum of $7.3m . |